 Welcome to Think Tech on Spectromosi 16, Hawaii's weekly newscast on Things That Matter to Tech and Hawaii. I'm Elise Anderson. And I'm Helen Dora-Heiden. In our show this time, we'll review some recent Top 5 Think Tech Talk Shows and staff pick. We'll check out the best of the best and get a handle on the issues and guests involved. Think Tech produces some 30 talk shows every week in our downtown studio. Here's a list of all our incredible Think Tech shows and hosts. As you can see, they're very diverse and their coverage is also very diverse, showing you things you might never otherwise know about. Every week, Think Tech chooses its Top 5 Think Tech Talk Shows from the week before, based on the number of views each of them has had on the internet. For this past week, the winning shows were as follows. Number one from the series Outside In. It's called We're Off to the Med, The Doctor and the Diet, hosted by Pauline Chokmachian with guest Dr. McKaley Carboni. It's on our Outside In playlist. Can you give us some examples of some of the recipes you have on your blog that can be made very quickly, without a lot of hassle, so people can try it? Look, the concept is this. You arrive home based on my experience. You have two kids and a wife who want to eat because they want to cook. And you have what? 30 minutes at most and then they start complaining that they're hungry. That's the reality. That's three hours a day to cook it. That was at the time of my grandmother, not now. So you have to be able to put together something that tastes good in 30 minutes, with some simple ingredients without making things so complicated, like I see sometimes on this food blog. And that's all my recipes are simple, easy to make it. Every single one. Yep. Well, there are a few that are a little more complicated, but the majority of them are easy to do and you can do them in 30 minutes. That's the idea, the philosophy behind all of them. Now one of the simplest Italian recipes is anything related to pasta. Is that correct? Yes. So do you have a favorite pasta yourself? Do you have a favorite? Look, the one that I prefer the most is my taste. Is the spaghetti with bongole or cod, so that you call it mussels or clams. It's very easy to make it. It takes nothing. You take the clams, you fry some olive oil in garlic. Take out the garlic from the olive oil, the Chinese, leave it there. It changes the flavor. As soon as you take color, you take it out. You throw the clams in, cover, wait a couple of minutes that they open up. Throw half a glass of wine, cover it, wait 30 seconds that it boils up, turn it off, take the clams out, the pasta is ready, put the pasta in, mix it up, add parsley and eat it. It's fantastic. It takes what? Nothing to make. How long does it take? Approximately how long? If you know how to do it, it will take 15 minutes. If you have never done it in your life, it will take 20. So that's not a lot of time at all. Not a lot of time, right? So a lot of people, what they do is they go to a restaurant for pasta. And one of the problems with a foreign cuisine in America is that it tastes differently in number one. And then Americans tend to add ingredients that are not found in the native cuisine. So for example, with Italian food, especially with pasta, they seem to add all the US versions of it. They seem to add a lot of extra fat, a lot of extra sauces. So this is not a good idea, is it? Look, the problem is the most people who cook in Italian restaurants should not be allowed to cook because they have no idea what they are doing, okay? Really. First, second, there is the concept the more the better, which is not true. The basic of the Italian cuisine is that you need to taste what it is. But if you close your eye and you do not know if what you are eating is swordfish or chicken, there is a problem. And the problem is that they threw so much condiment on it that everything is the same and they killed it. Number two, from the series Hawaii Food and Farmer. It's called From Fields to Flying, Drone Technology for Hawaii Farms, hosted by Ted Ralston with guest Josh Levy. It's on our Hawaii Food and Farmer playlist. I was personally done in the Philippines after the Alanda Typhoon down there and we did a lot of work down there looking at debris, collection and such and damage structure. And somehow putting that observation point up and looking down or at a bleak and looking slant gives you a whole new dimension of information. You can't get standing here with five and a half foot eyes looking horizontally. And you see a whole different picture. And so without belaboring it anymore, anywhere from man made to natural issues, he goes power lines and such, anything that can be inspected, can be inspected in general better and lower risk with something like these drones, which are also relative to people, they're expendable. If you lose a drone, it's not like the end of the day. But if you lose a person, it's a whole different deal. So this information that you're seeing in these new landscapes and stuff, are you able to look at it real time or do you have to collect it and then download it to a computer? Or is it that real time indication of data? Both are really there. Depending on the sensor package that you put on and the payload that carries that sensor package, it could be for collection for post analysis, things that don't move very fast. Ag for one is looking at it at night is probably not bad. And it saves having to transmit a lot of data down. If you're looking at law enforcement or fire protection, you want the information right there on a screen or you want to relay it to somebody else on a screen because you have to make decisions immediately. So what you're asking is a really interesting question. The most important thing is to understand thoroughly what the user's needs are, how they intend to use the information, what type of information they want to collect, how durable it has to be, what resolution it has to be, what accuracy. And then working backwards from there, you can put together the payload package and the sensors and then you can decide what to carry it on, carry it on a fixed swing, carry it on a hybrid, carry it on a rotor craft. Those decisions can be made once you understand really what the end user's needs are. So sitting down with some ag people over a great agricultural product, Hawaiian coffee, and having that discussion would be superb. We will start that, we can't do it tomorrow but we can do it Saturday. You get that bunch of people together, we'll sit down with them and talk about requirements. There you go. Question three from the series The Cyber Underground. It's called Ballistic Missile Alert. What if it was real, hosted by Dave Stevens with guest Jay Fidel. It's on our Cyber Underground playlist. The question, and I put it to you too, is between 807 and the time you concluded it wasn't right. Yeah. Did you have thoughts about your own mortality? I didn't and because I grew up in Cold War and we'll discuss some of these facts, the first thought I thought about, and let's put up the first image right now, let's put up that. Yeah. That's what I thought was coming. Basically, a big nuclear donut going to hit some place in Hawaii and the main target I knew was going to be either the city of Honolulu itself or the Pearl Hickam Joint Base, Pearl Harbor and Hickam Air Force Base, the two biggest most pocketed bases here on the island of Oahu just outside of downtown Honolulu, and they share runway space with Honolulu International Airport. So we have military bases, international airport, and a capital city of a state, all prime targets. So since I live on the other side of the island, over a 3,000 foot mountain range, I did not think that I would be immediately affected by the blast, but there's many more effects from a nuclear explosion than that. So let's put up where we thought I was coming from. We have an image here. We thought I was coming in from North Korea, it's approximately 200 miles, and you can see from North Korea to Hawaii, that's a hard target to hit. Now North Korea, just so you know, North Korea has only hit basically the sea of Japan so far, that's a much bigger target. We're a tiny little speck in the middle of the ocean to hit us would take some significantly enhanced technology. I hope they don't have that yet. So the mainland is a better target, they can make it there. But if they need a short range missile, and we're in the way, and they can hit us, that's where the thing is, Pearl Harbor, Hickam. Now let's look at the blast radius, that this is what would have happened in a 150 megaton blast, which is a medium-sized nuclear weapon. They go as big as 250, don't they? They go as big as 300. 300. Yeah, they have been 300. And Hiroshima was 15. Right, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, much smaller, right? They measured without the 10s, we're 10 times more here. And you can see right in the middle, you see Pearl Harbor. And that green circle is the fire that you're going to get. That outer circle is where you could still get broken windows. And the second to the outer circle is where you can still receive third-degree burns if you're in an exposed area. You can see it doesn't quite reach Honolulu, but where it's impacting, as you know, the way this island is built, that's all of our infrastructure right there, passing from one side of the island to the next, and that's going to cut us off. In the meantime, all that radiation goes straight up in the air, because it's a big mushroom cloud. Most of the stuff will sink right away, but winds will carry most of the other material, whatever directions the winds are blowing. Thankfully the winds, mostly we don't have the winds that come at us. We have winds that go away from us. Number four, from the series Aging with Grace, it's called the Age Without Borders Global Summit, hosted by J. Fidel with guest Cullen Hayashita. It's on our Aging with Grace playlist. We're looking at people from, let's say, let's say about 50 to about 75 and maybe 80 that are pre-retirees or thinking about retiring. Some that are early retirees and are still very active, but often times people that certainly want to live long and they want to live well, but often times are not really clear with regards to how to do that, and so when we look at pre-retirement seminars, often times it's about your, you know, Medicare and your Social Security benefit, and others will talk about how important, you know, remaining physically activists, but active aging is more than just your health or your finances. There are 11 facets that are involved, you know. We have to, we have to watch our physical fitness and our social fitness, our medical fitness, our nutritional fitness, you know, our financial fitness, and we have to also watch our purpose, you know, in terms of trying to clarify what it is that we want to do with the rest of our life. Who are you now that you are retiring without a job title? It's a life and death decision. Absolutely. You get older like that, you're facing, you know, the grim reaper. You have to decide what you want to do with your remaining time on the planet. Absolutely, and what good can you provide? You know, how can you remain useful? That's a very interesting question because if you remain useful, by definition you remain connected. If you remain connected, you know, your life is better, your sense of awareness. You're using your brain. Using your brain. If you use your brain, your brain will last longer. Absolutely, absolutely. Yeah, yeah. So this is all part of what we call active aging, you know. It's a very, it's a very, what's, what's the, give us a little bio of yourself. I know you were in KCC for a long time. Yes. Doing aging issues. Right, right. And then you've been involved in the conversion, if you will, of St. Francis in Lilleha into an aging facility. Talk about it. Well, yes. So I am still a consultant with St. Francis, which was once a hospital, that now has decided that they wanted to convert the entire facility into a Kapuna village, you know, an elder care village that dedicates itself to elder care services from institutional care to community based care to active aging exercise and wellness type of programs as well. Let's say institutionally, you mean people live there? Nursing homes. Yeah. And then St. Francis is also in the process of setting up an assisted living facility that people that are frail, but still independent. So it's going to create an entire array of different types of services there. Number five from the series Think Tech Tech Talks. It's called A New Year for Cybersecurity with host J. Fidel and guest Attila Serres. It's on our Think Tech Tech Talks playlist. There's something called Grateful POS. Now, if you haven't heard of this, you will. It's very new. What happened is a bunch of malicious software got on point of sale systems. I'm not sure if you know this, but point of sale symptoms are essentially computers. And those computers are swiping credit cards and that Grateful POS software silently made its way out to thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of point of sale systems, still figuring out the numbers. Inclusion horse kind of thing. Exactly. And the worst part was that no antivirus software that was currently on the market of the top 65 antivirus softwares could find it. So what that meant is it was siphoning off credit card numbers and sending it off to a far off country to fund human trafficking, drug trafficking, organized crime, and all that stuff was affecting local businesses all throughout the United States and here. Yeah. And so there's some damage control that's being done, but in the coming weeks and months, we're going to start seeing the outcome of that. You know, isn't it interesting that we have all these, these hacks and ransomware attacks all in 2017, and now organized crime is stronger than ever. Third world countries are have the funds to build weapons of mass destruction and send them our way potentially. And, you know, who knows what we're going to see this year. It's your countries too. Yeah. You know, first world countries are up people. Yeah. Well, just rewinding a little bit in the timeline, if you look back in November of 2016, when WikiLeaks originally left out some of these, some of these problems that were being used some of these exploits. A few months later, we saw the WannaCry ransomware attack. And that WannaCry ransomware attack took down computers all from London to Thailand all across the way, you know, so big commercial computer systems were held ransom, millions of dollars of ransomware payments went out. It's been confirmed to North Korea. And then six months later, North Korea has a new missile program. Wonder where they got the funding from. Oh, that's really stinky. Came from them, huh? Well, it's confirmed. I'm not repeating anything that you can't Google yourself and find out to come. Yeah, okay. Well, you can talk stinky about them. They've been stinky to us. Yeah. Anyway, you know, the thing about it is you mentioned now two things that are threatening. One is this the one at Christmas was again. This is grateful grateful. And you mentioned WannaCry. Okay. And the Christmas grateful happened at Christmas, but we haven't heard about it since. I mean, I haven't. And then WannaCry was a year ago, and we haven't heard much about that. This mean these things have been resolved. They say it came up on the screen. And then they went off the screen. Did somebody fix them? What happened? Well, they paid a ransom. And the way that ransomware works is that it gets onto a computer, right? And then once it's inside that computer, it says, okay, I'm going to silently encrypt all of these files. We've had to physically do this for clients to remediate this problem. And once it encrypts all the files, then it says great, would you like your files back? If so, here's the ransom demand. Yeah, it can be anywhere from $1,000 to $5,000. The highest we've seen here locally is $105,000. Wow. They did pay it, though. They did not, but they also did lose 12 years of data. We also have a staff pick. This time, it's from the series, What's on Your Mind, Hawaii? It's called Five Steps to Clean Up the Money in Our Politics with host Tim Apichella and guest Ed Case. It's on our What's on Your Mind, Hawaii playlist. So the five points that you mentioned in an editorial of how some reforms could look like, did that come as a result of the caucus, the reformed caucus, or is that just kind of something you believe strongly? No, I think we all got on the same page. We all agreed. We all believe in a fairly common message, and we believe that there are categories that we have to deal with in order to achieve reform. Well, let's look at some of those categories. I think the one that caught my, well, they're really very basic principles, but they're very, the impact is very, very powerful. And I think the one is everyone participates. And that's quite a concept. I mean, that's not happening. We're at 15% confidence of the American public because they don't feel they have a voice. Right. So there's a number of principles here. Everybody participates. Everybody knows everybody plays by the same rules. Everybody is held accountable and everybody has a voice. Those are kind of the categories and they're common sensical. But to tick off some of the realities and what we hope to achieve in those areas, everybody participates is about, hey, you know, the system is being overwhelmed by big contributions, small contributions just get lost in the shuffle. And is there a way that we can, you know, give a preference, give a benefit, give a credit, give an incentive to small donors? Because, you know, again, you have examples from the last campaign where small donors really wrote a lot of the books on these so it can work. Senator Bernie Sanders campaign really was of all of our small donations. Senator Sanders funded an entire successful, even though you did, did you find that surprising that he was that successful? I did not. And the reason is because of what we talked about quite early, because I think that there's just a building, you know, frustration in the country by most of us that's directed against the inside of the Beltway. And so I think that outside candidates at both the federal and the state level have a lot more of a chance today. People give them a lot better look. So he just happened to be in the right place, the right time. Exactly. And, you know, Senator Clinton for all her incredible achievements was painted as that insider. And she had the access to a lot of these institutional dollars, if you will. Well, she she was the benefit of money. There's no question about that. Everybody knows to me, this is probably one of the most important parts of our package, because we don't know today who is contributing. The transparency issue that absolutely transparency is a which was overturned by Citizens United versus the Federal Election Committee, right? Well, what what has really happened here is that, you know, if you if you want to go back and say, OK, what's what's the right system here? What what balances our right to lobby and our right to contribute against the the the problems of excesses of lobbying, excess of excesses of contributions and what you will find pretty fast. And, you know, we've already done this in McCain find gold and other laws is reasonable limits and full disclosure. 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